10-letter words containing il
- derailleur — a mechanism for changing gear on bicycles, consisting of a device that lifts the driving chain from one sprocket wheel to another of different size
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- derisorily — In a derisory manner.
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- deskilling — Present participle of deskill.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- despoiling — plundering by force
- detail man — a salesman for a pharmaceutical firm who visits doctors, dentists, etc. in a certain district to promote new drugs
- detailedly — in a detailed manner
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- devil of a — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- diesel oil — a combustible petroleum distillate used as fuel for diesel engines.
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dilatation — a dilated formation or part.
- dilatorily — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- dilettante — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- dilettanti — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- diligences — Plural form of diligence.
- diligently — industriously
- dillydally — to waste time, especially by indecision; vacillate; trifle; loiter.
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- diluteness — The state or quality of being dilute.
- dilutional — Of or pertaining to dilution.
- dinkum oil — the truth
- disability — lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- disembroil — to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion.
- disentrail — to remove the entrails from
- dishabille — the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- disilicate — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing two silicate anions.
- disiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any siloxane having two -Si-O- groups.
- dissilient — bursting apart; bursting open.
- dissimilar — not similar; unlike; different.
- distensile — distensible.
- distilland — a substance that undergoes distillation. Compare distillate (def 1).
- distillate — the product obtained from the condensation of vapors in distillation.
- distillers — Plural form of distiller.
- distillery — a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- distilling — Present participle of distill.
- distilment — distillation.
- disutility — the quality of causing inconvenience, harm, distress, etc.
- docibility — the capacity to be taught easily; docility
- dog's-tail — any of several grasses of the genus Cynosurus, esp C. cristatus (crested dog's-tail), that are native to Europe and have flowers clustered in a dense narrow spike